Abstract
In its exploration of the potential for hypertextual navigation offered by the new humanistic understanding of text, the article analyzes a traditional humanistic activity — that of annotating a scholarly edition (in this case, one of Shakespeare’s sonnets). It asserts that the interaction allowed by advanced textual analysis software are transferable to all the material that can be linked to the text. Moreover, semantic patterns, especially those identified with machine facilitation, operate in ways akin to hypertextual links.
Highlights
Three of the most seminal mechanical inventions ever devised, the alphabet, the printing press, and the book, have been in humanist hands for centuries
The problems associated with Wissenschaft-era accumulation have been more recently elaborated in the terms of the new humanist by Bill Winder, who concludes that our own period, the neo-Wissenschaft era, “brings with it . . . issues of retrieval and reuse,” noting that the challenge for us is to be “as efficient at retrieving the information we produce as we are at stockpiling it”; we are to do so with the assistance of the computer, the “humanist’s machine.”1
Valuable, by itself can't do it all. (“Hypertext Editions”). Ƒolio implications, such is the groundwork for the scholarly electronic edition that does much to deal with Wissenschaft-era accumulation, and does much to address issues that currently face the new humanist concerned with the management, retrieval, and re-use of scholarly materials
Summary
Dans son exploration du potentiel pour la navigation hypertextuelle mis en place par la nouvelle compréhension du terme « texte » dans les humanités, l’article analyse une activité traditionnelle propre à la recherche — la préparation de notes pour une édition critique (ici celles des sonnets de Shakespeare). Il propose d’étendre le type d’interaction que permettent les outils avancés d’analyse textuelle à l’ensemble du matériel qui peut être lié au texte. Les patrons sémantiques, surtout lorsqu’on les identifie avec des outils informatiques, opèrent de façon similaire au lien hypertextuel. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/
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